Game Shrinker, by Dakor is a new homebrew submitted to the GekiHEN contest !

Here's the description :

Save valuable space on your memory card by shrinking unneeded manuals, language and video files to 0-Byte files.
Game Shrinker automatically searches for manuals, language (text, audio, images) and video files in the game directories and offers you the possibility to shrink them to 0-Byte.

Shrinking files to 0-Byte is usually better supported than completely deleting them and reduces the chance of crashes and getting stuck when the file would usually be accessed by the game. Depending on the game and file, you still cannot shrink every file, though.

Game Shrinker comes with a "Try-A-Dummy"-Feature, which let's you temporary replace a file with a dummy-file. After you tested the game you can then decide to make this change permanent or undo it. (This saves you from having to reinstall the game if you shrinked a file that is obligatory for the the game)

I'm currently working on an advanced shrinking system, where movie files get replaced by short dummy movies which the game can actually load / play. This will additionally reduce the chance of getting stuck or experience crashes. Unfortunately I'm struggling with finding the correct encoding settings, so that the games accept the video files for each of the main video file types on the vita (mp4, usm, bik). So here this first release does not support this, yet.

Awesome homebrew, now we need a homebrew to install. Vpk files directly from de pc... Via USB or WiFi. Without the need of store it on the memory card, and then install.... Just install straight from the pc folder.... Would also save space on the card, cuz u have to havethe file twice on your card to install it.

Hellgun wrote:Awesome homebrew, now we need a homebrew to install. Vpk files directly from de pc... Via USB or WiFi. Without the need of store it on the memory card, and then install.... Just install straight from the pc folder.... Would also save space on the card, cuz u have to havethe file twice on your card to install it.